Jafar Hosseinzadeh

Jafar Hosseinzadeh is a seasoned technology expert. He has worked in places such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Genuity, BBN (Bolt, Beranek and Newman Inc., now Raytheon BBN Technologies), and Boston Children’s Hospital, in a variety of Information Technology and Software Engineering roles. Prior to joining Diversigen, he worked in a small technology company as the Director of Software Development.

Jafar specializes in establishing software development departments utilizing DevOps and Agile Scrum approaches. Jafar is a proponent of data-driven best practices, metrics, and benchmarks. He believes in cloud technology and aims to create a secure and efficient remote workspace.

Jafar establishes the appropriate strategic vision for the organization’s software engineering department, provides technical leadership, support, and mentorship to the department members, creates standardized processes, and SDLC, and establishes standardized tools across the department, and when necessary, across the organization.

Being a true servant leader, Jafar believes in a customer-centric culture. He encourages his team to strive toward developing their products by capturing the voice of internal and external customers. He promotes problem-solving work habits and adaptability that can expedite delivering exceptional products.

Jafar is a passionate believer in cross-functional teams and works hard to establish a positive functioning work environment within the organization. He collaborates effectively with his peers in various departments.

Jafar has a passion for learning and follows new technologies. He believes one cannot stand still, while technology is moving forward; hence he continuously seeks to learn new technologies and follows the latest trends in the industry. Additionally, Jafar encourages his staff to do the same; he provides access to various online learning tools for his team members. The goal is to have deep collective technical knowledge. This goes along with his servant leadership practice.

Jafar Hosseinzadeh holds a master’s degree in Applied Data Science from Syracuse University.